Surgery Waits

Nasal cautery waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]

The median wait for nasal cautery at this public hospital in the Bentleigh East area of Victoria was 18 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
18 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
51 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 1 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 71 days in 2017–18 to 18 days in 2024–25 — down 75% — while the national median fell from 61 days to 26 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 3.2%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nasal cautery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]18 days0.0%51 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)not publishednot published76 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days3.2%124 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for nasal cautery by financial year at Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 18Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Nasal cautery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMonash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot publishednot published
2017–1871not published61
2018–19118not published70
2019–20158not published80
2020–2151not published59
2021–2218not published37
2022–2314not published29
2023–2429not published61
2024–2518not published26

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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